Just five feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a soft, faltering voice, Kim Rivera is anything but soldierly. Yet two years ago, she was a private in the War on Terror, guarding a gate with an M4 rifle and frisking Iraqi civilians at a base in…
Man, what a lame crop of Rush Limbaugh insults the national Democrats have selected as their finalists in the West Palm Beach billboard of hate campaign. “Americans Didn’t Vote for a Rush to Failure”Limbaugh will just say, “Well, a vote for Obama was the quickest way to failure, so technically…
Stuart-based attorney Willie Gary (pictured above with his wife) is not shy. On his website, he boasts of his three “posh waterfront offices” and his 32-passenger custom-designed Boeing 737, “appropriately named ‘Wings of Justice II.'” When he posed for a Miami Herald photo, Gary flashed a giant diamond ring. And…
Boca Raton has its own dynamic duo in Tallahassee. There’s State Rep. Adam Hasner, the Republican. And there’s Sen. Ted Deutch, the Democrat. Based on party affiliation, who would you suppose is the one who wants to play hardball with Iran? And which one is a champion of the electric…
I still haven’t heard back from Deerfield Beach City Manager Michael Mahaney, but his office just emailed a copy of the message that apparently was the basis for an investigation into whether the city’s firefighters played an improper role in the recently wrapped election.The author of the note is Deerfield…
When I wrote about the plight of the newspapers in South Florida back in December, I asked Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal if there would be more layoffs. “I just don’t see that happening,” he told me. Well, he’s seeing it happen today. The Miami Herald is reporting the much-anticipated job…
It might seem like a nice gesture, Fox News talking head hot-air balloon Bill O’Reilly speaking at an event in Manalapan for the It Happened to Alexa Foundation, a rape survivors advocacy group based in New York. But rape victims and anti-O’Reilly enthusiasts are circulating a petition asking the foundation to cancel O’Reilly’s appearance…
Every single Circuit City has closed, because the Great Depression has caused us to stop buying ginormous television sets. The company hired a Fort Lauderdale man named Frank Joseph Connor II to help liquidate the merchandise at its store in Tredyffrin Township, Pa., just north of Philadelphia. But “liquidate” does…
Not 24 hours after Peggy Noland won the Deerfield Beach mayoral race, she’s already got a scandal on her hands. And no, I’m not talking about her son’s election eve arrest on charges of stealing campaign signs of other mayoral candidates. Guess that should be “scandals,” plural.Multiple sources tell Juice…
You probably aren’t a huge fan of the Dominican Republic baseball team. I know because you wouldn’t be reading this–your eyes would still be far too teary to stare at a blog. ESPN is reporting that hundreds of D.R. fans had already purchased plane tickets to Miami and tickets to the second…
Ivonne Rodriguez, of Miami, has a very disturbing story that indicates an unforeseen consequence of this deep recession: She says her beloved horse, Geronimo, was stolen and slaughtered in a field for its meat. The Wanch Waggler blog in Southwest Ranches picked up Ivonne’s story and reported that such incidents, at least…
A judge has cleared the way for the Green Party to figure out who’s behind the Florida Five, a group of mysterious Green Party candidates who ran in contested races across the state last November. Most of the Florida Five were broke young people who couldn’t have afforded the couple…
When he answered my phone call, Aslan Lamarche speaks in a voice that’s shaky, nervous. He’s slow to speak and takes long pauses until he’s sure he knows the voice on the other end. Lamarche knows that any call — especially one from a number inside the United States –…
— John Holland this morning gives us a fairly in-depth look at Mutual Benefits’ Colombian drug cartel connections. My favorite line: “The court records don’t make clear whether Mutual Benefits was an active participant in the money laundering or a pawn.” Joel Steinger is nobody’s pawn. He’s a pawnmaker. He’s a lifetime…
Hey, no pending felons were elected by the voters. In South Florida, that’s called progress. Let’s run this mf-er down: Davie: Tom Truex lost because Davie voters don’t want developers to mess up the nature of the town with The Commons. I called Judy Paul as the winner two weeks ago based on a Truex…
8:31 Welcome to the Juice muni elections liveblog. I will be doing the play-by-play. At my left is the color commentator, a highly flatulent greyhound who somehow managed to cast a ballot (for Al Capellini, natch) and has been flaunting her “My Vote Counted” sticker to all the other mutts…
Oh, it’s mighty tempting to go cruise the election night party circuit, but I’ve learned the hard way that venturing more than 50 feet away from my laptop causes some news bomb to go off. So I’ll be here, tonight, liveblogging the election returns. Polls close at 7, so check…
Palm Beach financier Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty and get a life sentence.Here’s betting that Bernie’s future fellow inmates are looking forward to performing a very literal rendition of what Madoff did figuratively to his investors…
Now that we know former County Commissioner Mary McCarty managed to steer lucrative bond deals to her husband’s bond underwriting firm, it would seem high time that the county reform the way it chooses a firm for financing the bonds issued to fund major public projects. Currently, Palm Beach and…
Your favorite, gun-toting, suspended Miramar commish, Fitzroy Salesman, woke early this morning to cast his vote without the television cameras. That plan didn’t quite work.Much to the chagrin of those reporters, Salesman did not whip out a gun and tell them to “back the fuck off.” Last week, a mistrial…
In his latest think piece, Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams describes his idea for a TV news crime show: During the newscast you “switch” to the WXXX Crime Bureau. There you have an ex- cop type whose “seen it all”—rough at the edges. Gravy stains on his shirt. It’s…
The first time came at the end of the first half. Then again to tie the game at the end of regulation. Then, after he stole the ball from John Salmons with three seconds left in the second overtime, Wade hit a running three as time expired to give “El…
